News Profile Research In the News Confronting COVID-19 Black History Month #PolicyForward Summer of Social Impact Confronting COVID-19 Policy in Action: Madeline Soskin, MPP Class of 2021, Confronting COVID-19 June 24, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 In the middle of her first year at Harris, as people began to understand the devastating impact the virus would have, Soskin and her friends felt a need to do something. Harris at Home and the Pivot to Digital June 24, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic forced the pivot from in-person to online learning with remarkable speed. Practically overnight, Harris Public Policy students and professors were logging into Zoom from homes all over the world. A Spring Quarter of Community with Harris at Home June 18, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 After the Keller Center emptied out following the conclusion of Winter Quarter, Spring Quarter began at home. Throughout an unprecedented transition to virtual learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a sense of community remained. Alumni Shed Light on COVID-19, Inequality, and the Need to Act June 18, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 Harris students and alumni “are energized by a problem,” Marie Trzupek Lynch said in comments echoed by the other panelists. “We want to dig our teeth into it and solve it. Problems for us are opportunities.” Where COVID-19 Testing Lags Community Need in Northeast Illinois May 29, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 A neighborhood in the top 10th percentile for uninsured residents has a test positivity rate that is 78 percent higher than the regional average, but a testing rate that is only 52 percent higher. Harris, Contactless Delivery Bots, and You May 26, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 Nuro, in a span of about two weeks, transformed its road-legal grocery-toting bot “R2” into a contactless transport vehicle for food and medical supplies at the coronavirus treatment facility that California created at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena. Pagination Page 1 Next page › Recent News Alumni Profile: Geet Chawla, MPP’21 Thu., September 21, 2023 Ali Fendrick and Troy Boyd Jr., Both AM'19, Apply Harris Toolkit to Schools in Chicago Wed., September 20, 2023 More news Upcoming Events Impact Investing and ESG Evening Reception with Kamran Khan, Gabriel Presler, and Professor Justin Marlowe Tue., September 26, 2023 | 5:00 PM Gleacher Center 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr. Room 300 Chicago, IL 60611 United States UChicago Harris Coffee Chat in Ithaca Tue., September 26, 2023 | 5:30 PM Collegetown Bagels 420 College Ave Ithaca, NY 14850 United States More events